Episode 111: Questioning Farm Management Traditions with Boe Clausen

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

AEA Marketing

Science, Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences

4.7 • 548 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Boe Clausen is a second-generation farmer in Eastern Washington. His parents immigrated from Denmark and established Stokrose Farm in 1981. Initially focused on vegetable seed production, the farm diversified into alfalfa, hay, corn, wheat, and cattle. Boe now manages Stokrose Farm alongside his siblings.

Boe's shift towards foliar applications, reduced nitrogen usage, and strategic nutrient management have improved crop health, reduced disease and insect pressure, and enhanced soil fertility. In 2022, he grew 250-bushel corn with only 20 lbs of nitrogen.

In this episode, Boe and John discuss:

The role of technology in modern farming practices
Using molybdenum, sulfur, and nitrogen foliar applications
How cover crops and crop rotations can build soil health
The impact of incorporating a feedlot into his operation
Using sap analysis to guide nutrition applications

Additional Resources

To learn more about Stokrose Farm, please visit: https://www.stokrose.com/

About John Kempf
John Kempf is the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA). A top expert in biological and regenerative farming, John founded AEA in 2006 to help fellow farmers by providing the education, tools, and strategies that will have a global effect on the food supply and those who grow it.

Through intense study and the knowledge gleaned from many industry leaders, John is building a comprehensive systems-based approach to plant nutrition – a system solidly based on the sciences of plant physiology, mineral nutrition, and soil microbiology.

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Since 2006, AEA has been on a mission to help growers become more resilient, efficient, and profitable with regenerative agriculture.

AEA works directly with growers to apply its unique line of liquid mineral crop nutrition products and biological inoculants. Informed by cutting-edge plant and soil data-gathering techniques, AEA's science-based programs empower farm operations to meet the crop quality markers that matter the most.

AEA has created real and lasting change on millions of acres with its products and data-driven services by working hand-in-hand with growers to produce healthier soil, stronger crops, and higher profits.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi friends, welcome back to the regenerative agriculture podcast. This is John Kempf,
0:05.0	and I've really been looking forward to the conversation that you're about to listen to.
0:09.0	You know, the focus of the podcast has largely been on agronomy because that is what I personally find interesting and fascinating.
0:16.0	It's where I find the large areas of opportunities. But also, in our work at advancing eco-agriculture, we are
0:22.9	constantly stimulated by growers who ask us challenging questions and who contribute new insights
0:28.2	to the work that we are all doing collectively. And one of those growers is joining me today,
0:32.9	Bo Klausen from the Pacific Northwest. Bo, thank you for being here. Why don't you tell us a bit about
0:37.3	the context of your operation, what your journey has been like and the scope of the work that
0:41.8	you're doing today? Yeah, thank you, John. Thank you for having me. It's definitely an honor to be here.
0:47.3	A little background on my farm and the family, we are a second generation farm here in the Columbia Basin of eastern Washington.
0:57.7	My parents started the farm in 1981.
1:01.2	They were actually immigrants from Denmark.
1:03.7	Met in California in 1965.
1:07.2	And they come over the last year, so you could come with an immigrant visa rather than a work visa.
1:12.6	And they met down there and decided this was truly the land of opportunity
1:17.6	and kept pursuing opportunities and that led to coming to eastern Washington to the Columbia Basin
1:25.6	and working on the farms there. And in 1981, decided that they would like to pursue their own farm and started on their own.
1:34.3	And so since then, we've been farming and started off as mostly a vegetable seed growing.
1:42.3	And today we've diversified into mostly alfalfa hay, corn, wheat, and still some vegetable
1:51.6	seeds, wrinkled seed peas, beans, wheat, tritakely seed, and such.
1:56.6	We also got cattle side of the operation started now.
1:59.8	We are doing cow calf, about 800 cow calf pairs and about 100 registered Angus bulls on the farm.
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